John Jakes
John Jakes
John William Jakes is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction. He has used the pen name Jay Scotland...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth31 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
jobs believe book
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.
giving-up editors taste
Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.
eye ears mouths
Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
essence heaven innocence
Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell
american-writer bells burned distant george hour house last mansion midnight narrow outside ringing stepped upstairs woke
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.